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Message-ID: <20071117180430.GA10768@elte.hu>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:04:30 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
Cc: Remy Bohmer <linux@...mer.net>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
RT <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG on PREEMPT_RT, 2.6.23.1-rt5] in rt-mutex code and signals
* Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 18:46 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > Actually, IMO, compat_semaphores behave like semaphores should
> > > > behave, and thus the same as they behave on a non-RT kernel, and at
> > > > the locations where the semaphores are now misused as mutexes on RT,
> > > > we should replace them by differently-named-mutex-type-semaphores,
> > > > or better: real-RT-mutexes..
> > >
> > > The vast majority of semaphore are actually binary semaphores in the
> > > Linux kernel .. So it's easier to mass convert semaphores to mutexes,
> > > then address the ones that don't conform.. Usually they are converted
> > > to the complete API in mainline..
> >
> > right now there are 3992 mutex_lock() critical sections in the kernel
> > and only 351 down() based critical sections are left.
> >
> > fixing the top 20:
> >
> > 4 &vuart_bus_priv.probe_mutex
> > 5 &connections_lock
> > 5 &irq_ptr->setting_up_sema
> > 5 &kbd->sem
> > 5 &pnp_res_mutex
> > 5 &port->port_lock
> > 5 &tq_init_sem
> > 6 &adb_handler_sem
> > 6 &dev->parent->sem
> > 6 &driver_lock
> > 6 &ha->vport_sem
> > 7 &big_buffer_sem
> > 8 &dir_f->sem
> > 9 &c->alloc_sem
> > 11 &dev->sem
> > 11 &usbvision->lock
> > 12 &c->erase_free_sem
> > 15 &u132->scheduler_lock
> > 16 &zfcp_data.config_sema
> > 17 &f->sem
> >
> > would remove 164 of them, so it would convert half of the remaining
> > semaphore use in the kernel. So the job is almost finished - would
> > anyone like to go for the final grand feat: complete removal of
> > semaphores from the kernel? :-)
>
> Sure, you want to split the list?
split the list with you? Feel free to take any of those :-) dev->sem is
nontrivial and probably not possible right now - and some of the others
might be problematic too. But there might be fixable ones in the list.
This shouldnt become like the BKL conversion - never truly finished.
Ingo
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